Learning map German by steps

How to read the map

Each row is a step in the chain of “builds on”. A building block stands one row below its deepest prerequisite. At the top are the building blocks without a prerequisite.

Step ↓ · Strand →	Speaking and listening 0 of 19 building blocks practised	Writing 0 of 61 building blocks practised	Reading 0 of 11 building blocks practised	Engaging with texts and other media 0 of 60 building blocks practised	Examining language and language use 0 of 55 building blocks practised
Step 129 building blocks	Rules for conversation (gap, no app yet) Active listening (gap, no app yet) Giving reasons for opinions orally (gap, no app yet) Body language and voice (gap, no app yet)	Writing purpose and audience (gap, no app yet) Revising texts (gap, no app yet) Word processing (gap, no app yet) Syllables and word parts (gap, no app yet) Commas in lists (gap, no app yet)	Reading techniques (gap, no app yet) Pre-reading (gap, no app yet)	Fiction and reality (gap, no app yet) Analysing the plot (gap, no app yet) Simile and metaphor (gap, no app yet) Reading tables and charts (gap, no app yet) Researching information (gap, no app yet) Personal media use (gap, no app yet) Radio play (gap, no app yet) Comics and graphic novels (gap, no app yet) Shot sizes and camera angles (gap, no app yet)	Nouns and articles (gap, no app yet) Conjugating verbs (gap, no app yet) Adjectives and comparison (gap, no app yet) Conjunctions (gap, no app yet) Sentence types (gap, no app yet) Grammatical tests (gap, no app yet) Word fields and synonyms (gap, no app yet) Spoken and written language (gap, no app yet) Comparing languages (gap, no app yet)
Step 252 building blocks	Note-taking while listening (gap, no app yet) Persuading and convincing (gap, no app yet) Resolving conflicts through talk (gap, no app yet) Reading aloud and reciting (gap, no app yet) Role play (gap, no app yet) Short talk (gap, no app yet) Taking part in a discussion (gap, no app yet)	Writing plan (gap, no app yet) Describing an object (gap, no app yet) Giving directions (gap, no app yet) Written statement of opinion (gap, no app yet) Formal letters and emails (gap, no app yet) Tabular CV (gap, no app yet) Citing sources (gap, no app yet) Spelling long vowels (gap, no app yet) Spelling short vowels (gap, no app yet) Capitalisation (gap, no app yet) Hyphenation at line breaks (gap, no app yet) Alphabetical order and base forms (gap, no app yet) End punctuation (gap, no app yet)	Highlighting and sectioning texts (gap, no app yet) Asking questions about a text (gap, no app yet) Reading hypertexts (gap, no app yet)	Text functions (gap, no app yet) Prose, poetry and drama (gap, no app yet) Exploring characters (gap, no app yet) Fairy tales (gap, no app yet) Fables (gap, no app yet) Narrator and author (gap, no app yet) Literary motifs (gap, no app yet) Personification (gap, no app yet) Symbols (gap, no app yet) Rhetorical devices (gap, no app yet) Analysing infographics (gap, no app yet) Evaluating sources (gap, no app yet) Online privacy (gap, no app yet) Editing, montage and sound (gap, no app yet)	Gender and number (gap, no app yet) Strong and weak verbs (gap, no app yet) Future and future perfect (gap, no app yet) Pronouns (gap, no app yet) Adverbs (gap, no app yet) Modal verbs (gap, no app yet) Subject and predicate (gap, no app yet) Compound words (gap, no app yet) Derivation (gap, no app yet) Word families (gap, no app yet) Ambiguous words (gap, no app yet) Language of proximity and distance (gap, no app yet) Standard and academic language (gap, no app yet) Communication model (gap, no app yet) Netiquette (gap, no app yet)
Step 348 building blocks	Book presentation (gap, no app yet) Giving feedback (gap, no app yet) Oral presentation (gap, no app yet) Chairing a discussion (gap, no app yet) Formal debate (gap, no app yet) Conducting an interview (gap, no app yet)	Structure of a narrative (gap, no app yet) Describing a person (gap, no app yet) Describing a process (gap, no app yet) Describing a picture (gap, no app yet) Writing minutes (gap, no app yet) Excerpting (gap, no app yet) Structure of an argument (gap, no app yet) Application letter (gap, no app yet) Spelling by extending and deriving (gap, no app yet) S sounds: s, ss, ß (gap, no app yet) Das or dass (gap, no app yet) Capitalising nominalisations (gap, no app yet) Compound and separate spelling (gap, no app yet) Using a dictionary (gap, no app yet) Punctuating direct speech (gap, no app yet)	Stating the main points (gap, no app yet)	Judging a character's behaviour (gap, no app yet) Continuing and rewriting stories (gap, no app yet) Legends (gap, no app yet) Reading a youth novel (gap, no app yet) Narrative person (gap, no app yet) Character constellation (gap, no app yet) Short story (gap, no app yet) Signals of fictionality (gap, no app yet) Line, stanza and rhyme (gap, no app yet) Analysing a dramatic scene (gap, no app yet) Structure of non-fiction texts (gap, no app yet) News report and commentary (gap, no app yet) Analysing advertising (gap, no app yet) Algorithms and social media (gap, no app yet)	Grammatical cases (gap, no app yet) Present and simple past (gap, no app yet) Adverbials (gap, no app yet) Main and subordinate clauses (gap, no app yet) Idioms and proverbs (gap, no app yet) Native words, loanwords, foreign words (gap, no app yet) Semantic change (gap, no app yet) Choosing a register (gap, no app yet) Youth language (gap, no app yet) Dialects (gap, no app yet) Content and relationship levels (gap, no app yet) Text cohesion (gap, no app yet)
Step 443 building blocks	Presenting with slides (gap, no app yet) Job interview (gap, no app yet)	Writing suspenseful stories (gap, no app yet) Story writing from prompts (gap, no app yet) Retelling a story (gap, no app yet) Writing from a model text (gap, no app yet) Writing poems (gap, no app yet) Factual report (gap, no app yet) Introductory summary sentence (gap, no app yet) Ordering arguments (gap, no app yet) Book and film review (gap, no app yet) Spelling loanwords (gap, no app yet) Analysing spelling mistakes (gap, no app yet)	Working out unknown words (gap, no app yet) Reading journal (gap, no app yet) Visualising text content (gap, no app yet) Reading between the lines (gap, no app yet) Comparative reading (gap, no app yet)	Narrative perspective (gap, no app yet) Narrative time and story time (gap, no app yet) Interior monologue (gap, no app yet) Textual evidence (gap, no app yet) Novella (gap, no app yet) Rhyme schemes (gap, no app yet) Metre (gap, no app yet) Lyric speaker (gap, no app yet) Ballads (gap, no app yet) Writing a dramatic scene (gap, no app yet) Elements of drama (gap, no app yet) Feature report (gap, no app yet) Structure of a newspaper (gap, no app yet) Analysing argumentation (gap, no app yet) Spotting fake news (gap, no app yet) Comparing book and film (gap, no app yet)	Present perfect and past perfect (gap, no app yet) Prepositions (gap, no app yet) Subjunctive II (gap, no app yet) Objects (gap, no app yet) Compound and complex sentences (gap, no app yet) Topological field model (gap, no app yet) Nominal and verbal style (gap, no app yet) Language change (gap, no app yet) Manipulative language (gap, no app yet)
Step 521 building blocks		Descriptive writing of moods (gap, no app yet) Informative text from sources (gap, no app yet) Letter to the editor (gap, no app yet) Linear argumentative essay (gap, no app yet) Creating an outline (gap, no app yet) Writing a commentary (gap, no app yet) Quoting (gap, no app yet) Commas between clauses (gap, no app yet)		Characterisation (gap, no app yet) Form and content in poems (gap, no app yet) Five-act structure (gap, no app yet) Analysing dramatic dialogue (gap, no app yet)	Time relations between tenses (gap, no app yet) Active and passive voice (gap, no app yet) Reported speech (gap, no app yet) Attributes (gap, no app yet) Adverbial clauses (gap, no app yet) Subject and object clauses (gap, no app yet) Infinitive and participle groups (gap, no app yet) Technical language (gap, no app yet) Discriminatory language (gap, no app yet)
Step 68 building blocks		Plot summary (gap, no app yet) Pro and con essay (gap, no app yet) Paraphrasing (gap, no app yet) Commas with appositives (gap, no app yet) Commas with infinitive and participle groups (gap, no app yet)		Interpretive hypothesis (gap, no app yet) Comparing poems (gap, no app yet)	Relative clauses (gap, no app yet)
Step 74 building blocks		Summarising non-fiction texts (gap, no app yet) Source-based argumentative writing (gap, no app yet) Writing a literary interpretation (gap, no app yet)		Text and context (gap, no app yet)
Step 81 building block		Non-fiction text analysis (gap, no app yet)

Click a building block to see what it builds on and what builds on it, step by step.

How to read the map

Strand · a column: A part of the subject that runs over several school years.
Building block · a box: One thing a child can learn: “I can …”.
Step · a row: How far down a building block stands in the chain of “builds on”. It says nothing about grades.
App · the colour: Blue means covered: an app practises the building block. Dashed means gap: no app practises it yet.

All terms and how they belong together · Why this method?